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Jason Robards
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Jason Robards

1922 – 2000 · Chicago, Illinois, USA · Active 1948–2017

Jason Robards, born in 1922, is an American actor whose career spanned decades, leaving a significant mark on cult cinema. Known for his powerful performances, he appears in Isadora (1968) as the enigmatic partner of the iconic dancer and in A Boy and His Dog (1975), where he navigates a post-apocalyptic world. Robards' versatility shines through in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), where he embodies complex characters that resonate within the realms of exploitation and grindhouse cinema. His contributions to these films reflect a unique intersection of theatrical gravitas and genre storytelling.

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Isadora

Isadora

1968 ★ 6.7
as Paris Singer

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

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Filmography

166 credits
2010s 2 credits
2017
Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.1
2016
Movie ★ 7.4
2000s 6 credits
2006
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 as Joe's Father (video "One")
Movie ★ 7.7
2004
Movie ★ 8.0
2000
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.1
2000
Going Home as Charles Barton
Movie ★ 6.5
2000
Movie ★ 7.7
1990s 41 credits
1999
Magnolia as Earl Partridge
Movie ★ 7.7
1999
My Best Fiend as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.3
1998
The Real Macaw as Grandpa Girdis
Movie ★ 6.0
1998
Heartwood as Logan Reeser
Movie ★ 3.8
1998
Beloved as Mr. Bodwin
Movie ★ 5.8
1998
Enemy of the State as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.1
1997
A Thousand Acres as Larry Cook
Movie ★ 5.7
1997
Truman as Narrator (voice)
Movie
1996
Movie ★ 9.0
1996
The West as Self - Brigham Young
TV ★ 8.4
1995
The Great American West as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 9.0
1995
My Antonia as Josea Burden
Movie ★ 7.3
1995
Journey as Marcus
Movie ★ 6.2
1995
Crimson Tide as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.2
1994
The Paper as Graham Keighley
Movie ★ 6.6
1994
The Enemy Within as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Movie ★ 5.8
1994
Little Big League as Thomas Heywood
Movie ★ 6.0
1994
Baseball as (voice)
TV ★ 7.5
1993
Movie ★ 6.2
1993
The Trial as Doctor Huld
Movie ★ 6.0
1993
Movie ★ 7.1
1993
Philadelphia as Charles Wheeler
Movie ★ 7.7
1993
La Classe américaine as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.6
1993
Heidi as Großvater
Movie ★ 6.0
1993
Heidi as Grandfather
TV ★ 7.1
1992
Storyville as Clifford Fowler
Movie ★ 5.3
1992
Deceptions as Clay (voice)
Movie ★ 9.0
1992
Lincoln as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Movie ★ 7.3
1992
When It Was a Game 2 as Passage Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 9.0
1991
Mark Twain and Me as Mark Twain
Movie ★ 7.6
1991
Movie ★ 7.6
1991
The Perfect Tribute as President Abraham Lincoln
Movie ★ 6.5
1991
Chernobyl: The Final Warning as Dr. Armand Hammer
Movie ★ 5.8
1991
Movie ★ 10.0
1991
Movie ★ 10.0
1991
An Inconvenient Woman as Jules Mendelson
TV ★ 5.8
1990
Quick Change as Chief Rotzinger
Movie ★ 6.7
1990
Movie ★ 4.0
1990
The Civil War as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
TV ★ 7.9
1980s 40 credits
1989
Parenthood as Frank Buckman
Movie ★ 6.7
1989
Dream a Little Dream as Coleman Ettinger
Movie ★ 5.8
1989
Black Rainbow as Walter Travis
Movie ★ 5.8
1989
Reunion as Henry Strauss
Movie ★ 6.7
1989
Thomas Hart Benton as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 7.8
1988
Bright Lights, Big City as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
Movie ★ 5.7
1988
The Good Mother as W. O. Muth
Movie ★ 5.7
1988
The Christmas Wife as John Tanner
Movie ★ 5.0
1988
Inherit the Wind as Harry Drummond
Movie ★ 7.7
1988
American Experience as Narrator (voice)
TV ★ 6.6
1987
Square Dance as Dillard
Movie ★ 4.7
1987
Laguna Heat as Wade Shephard
Movie ★ 4.3
1987
Breaking Home Ties as Lloyd Wells
Movie ★ 7.3
1987
Movie ★ 6.0
1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.1
1986
Johnny Bull as Stephan Kovacs
Movie ★ 5.5
1986
The Last Frontier as Ed Stenning
Movie
1986
The Last Frontier as Ed Stenning
TV ★ 7.0
1985
Empire City as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 9.0
1985
The Long Hot Summer as Will Varner
TV ★ 5.5
1985
TV ★ 5.8
1985
Screen Two as Doctor Huld
TV ★ 7.1
1984
You Can't Take it With You as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Movie
1984
Movie ★ 6.2
1984
Sakharov as Andrei Sakharov
Movie ★ 7.5
1984
The World of Tomorrow as Self / Narrator
Movie ★ 5.5
1983
Max Dugan Returns as Max Dugan
Movie ★ 6.6
1983
The Day After as Dr. Russell Oakes
Movie ★ 6.8
1983
Movie ★ 6.4
1983
Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
TV ★ 8.3
1982
Burden of Dreams as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.6
1982
Movie ★ 6.8
1981
The Legend of the Lone Ranger as President Ulysses S. Grant
Movie ★ 5.0
1980
Caboblanco as Gunther Beckdorff
Movie ★ 5.3
1980
Raise the Titanic as Admiral James Sandecker
Movie ★ 5.3
1980
Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes
Movie ★ 6.5
1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Movie ★ 6.9
1980
Haywire as Leland Hayward
Movie ★ 6.7
1980
Movie
1970s 29 credits
1979
Hurricane as Capt. Charles Bruckner
Movie ★ 4.8
1979
TV
1978
Comes a Horseman as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
Movie ★ 6.1
1978
A Christmas to Remember as Daniel Larson
Movie ★ 7.5
1978
TV ★ 7.4
1977
Julia as Dashiell Hammett
Movie ★ 6.5
1977
Washington: Behind Closed Doors as President Richard Monckton
TV ★ 7.8
1976
Movie ★ 7.7
1976
Addie and the King of Hearts as James "Jamie" Mills
Movie ★ 7.7
1976
The Spy Who Never Was as Inspector Barkan
Movie ★ 8.0
1975
A Boy and His Dog as Lou Craddock
Movie ★ 6.3
1975
A Moon for the Misbegotten as James Tyrone Jr.
Movie ★ 6.5
1975
Mr. Sycamore as John Gwilt
Movie ★ 7.3
1975
The Easter Promise as James "Jamie" Mills
Movie ★ 7.3
1974
The Country Girl as Frank Elgin
Movie ★ 10.0
1973
Movie ★ 7.2
1973
The Thanksgiving Treasure as James "Jamie" Mills
Movie ★ 7.8
1973
Old Faithful as Jason Robards
Movie
1972
Movie ★ 6.7
1972
Movie ★ 6.4
1972
Ghost Story as Elliot Brent
TV ★ 7.4
1971
Movie ★ 5.1
1971
Johnny Got His Gun as Joe's Father
Movie ★ 7.5
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora! as General Walter C. Short
Movie ★ 7.2
1970
Movie ★ 7.0
1970
Julius Caesar as Marcus Brutus
Movie ★ 5.9
1970
Fools as Matthew South
Movie ★ 3.3
1970
Operation Snafu as Sam Armstrong
Movie ★ 6.7
1960s 25 credits
1968
Isadora as Paris Singer
Movie ★ 6.2
1968
Movie ★ 5.7
1968
Movie ★ 8.3
1968
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
TV ★ 6.8
1967
Hour of the Gun as Doc Holliday
Movie ★ 6.5
1967
Movie ★ 6.3
1967
Divorce American Style as Nelson Downes
Movie ★ 5.8
1967
Movie ★ 7.0
1967
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Movie
1966
Any Wednesday as John Cleves
Movie ★ 6.1
1966
Movie ★ 7.1
1966
Noon Wine as Royal Earle Thompson
Movie ★ 7.0
1966
The Face of Genius as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 7.0
1966
ABC Stage 67 as Royal Earle Thompson
TV ★ 6.8
1965
Movie ★ 6.9
1964
Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln
Movie ★ 8.7
1963
Act One as George S. Kaufman
Movie ★ 6.3
1963
TV ★ 7.0
1962
Movie ★ 7.0
1962
Tender Is the Night as Dick Diver
Movie ★ 5.7
1961
By Love Possessed as Julius Penrose
Movie ★ 5.3
1960
The Iceman Cometh as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
Movie ★ 7.4
1960
The Bat as Detective Anderson
Movie ★ 5.0
1960
The Iceman Cometh as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
TV
1950s 16 credits
1959
For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
Movie
1959
The Journey as Paul Kedes
Movie ★ 6.3
1959
A Doll's House as Dr. Rank
Movie ★ 10.0
1959
TV ★ 8.0
1956
Playhouse 90 as Robert Jordan
TV ★ 7.6
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Host
TV
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
TV
1955
The Alcoa Hour as Bert Palmer
TV ★ 7.0
1953
TV ★ 6.8
1953
The Oscars as Self
TV ★ 7.0
1952
TV ★ 6.3
1951
TV ★ 8.8
1951
TV ★ 8.8
1951
TV ★ 8.8
1951
TV ★ 8.8
1950
What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
TV ★ 7.0
1940s 7 credits
1948
Studio One as Frank Cameron
TV ★ 5.4
1948
TV ★ 6.6
1948
TV ★ 6.8
1948
Studio One as Prisoner
TV ★ 5.4
1948
Studio One as Walter Osgood
TV ★ 5.4
1948
Studio One as Leonard O'Brien
TV ★ 5.4
1948
TV ★ 6.6